New Delhi: After the 2012 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, the Batla House encounter seems to have emerged as a heated issue in Delhi's municipal corporation elections. Zia-ur-Rehman, an accused in the 2008 Delhi serial blasts, has entered the fray to contest MCD elections as an independent candidate from Ward No. 205 to make his "call for justice stronger and heard" and to prove his "innocence."The security agencies call him an Indian Mujahideen operative, but the Muslim community believes he is "falsely implicated in terror cases."
Twenty-two-year-old Zia, a student of Jamia Millia Islamia, was arrested after the gunbattle in Batla House that took place in the aftermath of serial blasts in the national capital in 2008. He is currently lodged in Sabarmati Jail in Ahmedabad and perhaps the only candidate in the April 15 municipal election to contest from prison. He was allowed by a local court to forward his nomination for forthcoming MCD polls through Ahmedabad's Sabarmati Jail superintendent.
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